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Josef Koudelka / Gypsies (Zingari)

Publisher: Contrasto Publication Year: 2019 ''I have always been attracted by what comes to its end, what will soon disappear'' Josef Koudelka Gypsies, in paperback, is the updated version of the famous title. It is the original sample of Cikáni (Czech for "Gypsies") prepared by Josef Koudelka and graphic artist Milan Kopřiva in 1968, which was intended to be published in Prague in 1970. Compared to the large-format edition—the first Italian one, published in 2011 by Contrasto in a limited edition—the one that came closest to the original idea for the book, with the vertical photographs reproduced full-page and the horizontal ones double-page, this new version is completely updated in format, cover, and graphic design. It also features two new texts by Stuart Alexander and Will Guy. Cikáni represents the first nucleus of Koudelka's photographic career, never denied, as many tend to do, and indeed revived today by the author himself, who personally reimagines and redesigns it for an unpublished paperback version. The editorial project was born in 1968, but the photographer pursued it for years amidst daring adventures related to the publication of the title, which only arrived much later in 1975 and in America. The photographer left Czechoslovakia in 1970, after documenting the Russian invasion of the city in August 1968. The book was never published. This version includes 109 photographs taken in what was then Czechoslovakia (Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia), Romania, Hungary, France, and Spain between 1962 and 1971. In the paperback Zingari , Josef Koudelka manages to give a new impact to a title that had already marked the history of photography. By changing the structure of the volume, the photographer is able to interact with the reader. Zingari presents all the images on the right, at the same size and with a blank facing page, thus preventing the photographs from being juxtaposed and thus opening them up even further to interpretation. This project changes and comes to life in our hands, forcing us to rotate the book when observing vertical and horizontal images. Koudelka's fascination with Gypsies stemmed from Gypsy music, when he was still working as an aeronautical engineer and photography was just a passion. He began visiting Gypsy settlements and then photographing them, attempting to capture the allure of their culture, the meaning of their lives, and their profound humanity. The Czechoslovakian Gypsies, on the brink of extinction, politically forced to assimilate into modern society, appear in these images with a powerful dramatic charge. Gypsies , in paperback version, is now a new reflection on a people and their condition, still highly contested and which still has much to say. Josef Koudelka was born in Czechoslovakia in 1938. His first job was as an aeronautical engineer; in 1962, he began photographing Gypsies in his spare time, becoming a professional photographer in the late 1960s. He captured the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his shots under the initials PP ( Prague Photographer ). In 1969, the Overseas Press Club anonymously awarded him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for photography. The following year, Koudelka left Czechoslovakia as a political asylum seeker and shortly thereafter joined the Magnum Photos agency. Gypsies —the first of a dozen books including Exiles (1988), Chaos (1999), Invasion 68: Prague (2008), and Wall (2013)—was published in 1975. Over the course of his career, Koudelka has won prestigious awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), the Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), the Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson (1991), and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1992). His work has been featured in major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York; the Hayward Gallery in London; the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam; the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Decorative Arts and the National Gallery in Prague. In 2012, he was named Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and Communications. He currently lives between Paris and Prague.